ISO/DIS 25577 - Information & documentation - MarcXchange 2006-03-15 Data The scope of this draft International Standard is to provide a tool for exchange of MARC records in XML. This proposed standard specifies the requirements for a generalized XML-based exchange format for bibliographic records as well as other types of metadata. MarcXchange could potentially be used as follows: * for original resource description in XML syntax; * as an extension schema to METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard); * for exchange of MARC records in XML; * for transfer of MARC records in web services like SRW (Search/Retrieve Web service); * for metadata in XML that may be packaged with an electronic resource. The draft standard can be obtained from the ISO website at http://www.iso.org/iso/en/CatalogueDetailPage.CatalogueDetail?CSNUMBER=43005&scopelist=PROGRAMME Patricia C Franks pfranks@stny.rr.com 945 Debonair Drive Endwell NY UNITED STATES 13760